Jones Day Adds Nine U.S. Supreme Court Clerks from 2019-20 Term

Jones Day hired nine U.S. Supreme Court clerks from the 2019-20 term, the Cleveland-based global law firm announced on Thursday, marking what the firm’s Issues & Appeals Practice head called a “bumper crop” year.

The new hires give the firm recent insight from a majority of the court, mostly from its increasingly powerful Republican-appointed majority: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, as well as the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in September, and retired Justice David Souter.

That hiring across several chambers “is very much on purpose,” said Traci ...